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A manager at a pawn shop in the US is being hailed as a ‘hero’ online after he lunged to save a toddler who had fallen off the shop’s counter. The video of the incident that took place in a Utah store is now going viral online.
Surveillance footage shows two women enter the Family Pawn store in the city of Hurricane with the baby, and the child is then placed on the store’s glass counter as the women start to examine a rifle.
Store manager Bill Reel told KUTV that he saw the child crawl towards the edge of the counter. As the baby fell, he lunged and caught the child in his arms.
Watch the full video here:
The footage shows the infant wailing after the incident and one of the women takes the child from Reed. The other woman continued to examine the gun.
On social media, people praised the store manager for his quick thinking, while some criticised the women for their handling of the child. Here’s how people reacted to the video:
